]]>Going camping? Need camping food ideas? Well Tillamook Cheese Lover, let me introduce you to a few delicious ideas and the most important piece of camping equipment you will ever own…the Pudgy Pie.

The Pudgy Pie cooking iron just might be the greatest contraption ever invented. Here we’ve put ours to the test, the Grilled Cheese Pudgy Pie Test. After a lovely camping trip to the base of Washington’s Mt. Rainier, we now have a new appreciation for cooking outside. A hike through Summerland

– an alpine meadow at 6000ft – left us ravenous. So we headed back to camp to try our hand at three different Pudgy Pie grilled cheese experiments.

Step 7: Let sit for 3-5 minutes per side, depending on the heat of the fire. This part takes some estimating, so play it by ear and enjoy any ‘mess-ups’!

Step 8: Let the fire burn off. Clean up any remaining food on the Pudgy Pie.

To kick things off, we started with a classic, fire-kissed avocado, tomato, and Tillamook Medium Cheddar grilled cheese.

This sandwich was incredibly fresh for a grilled cheese! Obviously, bacon would be a great addition for those of us who are meat lovers. This was a delicious way to begin dinner, and it created lots of tasty leftovers for a veggie breakfast scramble in the morning.

Tip: this was the first one we made so the Pudgy Pie cast iron could have been hotter and we could have left it in the fire longer to make sure it was really roasty-toasty.

This was the perfect way to watch a dying fire under the stars. The fruit keeps this treat light, while the chocolate makes sure you get dessert. The cheese actually acts more as texture and paves the way for all the other great flavors to combine. The fig was a last-minute addition as we “harvested” the first three figs from our new baby tree in the backyard! I think any fruit you have handy would work.